MEET OUR TEAM

2025 STAFF MEMBERS

MI-JEONG LEE
Artistic and Executive Director

Mi-Jeong Lee is the Founder and Artistic Director of Arts East-West/Korean Film Festival Canada. An independent artist and scholar on Asian film, media and visual arts, she also holds a PhD in Arts Studies and Practices of the Faculté des arts at l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Lee teaches Korean visual and media arts at l’Université de Montréal. Her recent research focuses on Korean arts, Asian Canadian diaspora arts, along with women’s rights, labours, body, environments in a gaze of aesthetics and film philosophy.
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Arismita Ghosh
Assistant Coordinator

Arismita Ghosh is a writer and arts administrator with a deep love for Montreal's cultural scene. As a journalist, they have written for multiple publications across Canada and India. They hold a BA in Honours English Literature from McGill University.
Stacy Jung
Intern

Tia Shibly
Intern

Gayeon Song
Programmer

Hasna Kone
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Graphics Intern

Michel Lavigueur
Accounts and Finance, Consultant

2026 MAFF PROGRAMMING TEAM

PROGRAMMERS: Gayeon Song, Mi-Jeong Lee
INVITED PROGRAMMERS: Gabriel Rémy-Handfield (Hong Kong, UdeM), Livia Monnet (UdeM)
PROGRAMMING ASSISTANTS: Stacy Jung, Tia Shibly

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MARIE BOTI Film director / Co-Founder of Multi-Monde Productions / Vice-chairperson of International Women’s Alliance (IWA), (Montreal, Canada)
MI-JEONG LEE Independant Artist, Lecturer in Korean visual and media arts, Founder and Artistic Director of Arts East-West (Montreal, Canada)
ALICE IL SHIN Film Director, Writer (Toronto, Canada)
VINCENT TOI
Technology and Website Development, Film Director / Production Studio and Corporate Brand Management at CBC Radio-Canada (Montreal, Canada)
SEUNG YEON HAMM Market Development Consultant and Studious of Air Canada, former volunteer at Arts East-West (Toronto)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (2025-2026)

MARIE BOTI Executive Director
MI-JEONG LEE Artistic and Executive Director
MICHEL LAVIGUEUR Taxes and Accounting Director

ADVISORY BOARD COMMITTEE (2023-2026)

CANADA
JANET LUMB Independent Artist, Music Performer and Co-founder and former Artistic Director of Festival Accès Asie (Montreal)
YOUNGSUP CHUNG Honorary Professor at Université de Montréal, Faculty of Arts and Science, Principal at the Korean Language School of Greater Montreal (Montreal)
JACQUES DESBIENS Artist, Art Historian and Lecturer (Montreal, Canada)
LIVIA MONNET Consultant, Tenured professor in the Department of World Literature and Languages at the Université de Montréal (Montreal, Canada)
MINSIK KIM Marketing Development Consultant, CEO of Hanca Education
KOREA
CHOI, DONGHWAN Board Chair of Africa Insight, former Consul General to Montreal, Permanent Representative to the ICAO Council (Seoul, Korea)
CHOI, JUNGBONG Dr. Writer and Consultant, Former Professor of Cinema at NYU and Hong Kong University
KIM, SHIN DONG Professor of the Media School and Director of the Institute for Convergence Culture at Hallym University, Director of the Knowledge Coop for Good Governance (Seoul)
KIM, SOYOUG Filmmaker, Artist, Professor of Cinema Studies at the Korea National University of Arts, Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Culture Institute (Seoul)
LEE, JIYOUNG Professor in Philosophy and Film Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul)

2025 TEAM MEMBERS

LUCY FANDEL General Coordinator
ANUJ KHOSLA Accounting and Administration, Consultant
YUNA CHOI Assistant Program Coordinator

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT DURING THE 12TH KFFC!

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12TH KFFC CURATORS

MI-JEONG LEE
ANNABELLE KANG
MATHILDE ELIE
ALEX SEOKBIN YOON

12TH KFFC ART TALKS ARTISTS

Alex Seokbin Yoon, Mentee for the Asian Canadian Documentary Mentorship Project
Martin Dufresne, Mentee for the Asian Canadian Documentary Mentorship Project
Vincent Toi,
Filmmaker and Mentor for the Asian Canadian Documentary Mentorship Project
Philippe Szporer, Filmmaker and Mentor for the Asian Canadian Documentary Mentorship Project
Crystal Chan,
Media Artist

12TH KFFC VOLUNTEERS

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Special thank you to:
Sarah-Maude Lemieux – Volunteer Coordination
Ruotong Li – Social Media Support
Sojeong Kim – Naver Blog Management
Hasna Kone – Graphic Support

Michèle Bayard, Samantha Chan, Daphne Yu, Olivia Curry, Reginald Tan, Prépa Alam, Emily Doyle, Rin Seo, Katherine Teleyon, Julianna Yip, Serena Grolund, Junha Park, Gracie Li

12TH KFFC THANKS TO

Chaouki Dakdouki, Regional Director General, Canadian Heritage – Quebec Region
LEE, Jae-wan, Consul General of the Republic of Korea to Montreal, and Ambassador of ICAO
CHOI, Donghwan, Board Chair of Africa InsightOH Suji, Vice Consul of the Republic of Korea to Montreal
Zaynab Raza, Executive Assistant to the DG, Canadian Heritage – Quebec Region
MA Hyunjoo, General Administration of  King Sejong Institute in Montreal
Tina Big Daddy Queen Power, Singer and MC
Zab Maboungou, Artistic Director, Scholar and Founder of Nyata Nyata Dance Company

Youngsup Chung, Ali Ihtyiar, Masoud Raouf, Xiaodan He, Philip Szporer, Marlene Millar, Marie Boti, Leonoa Moncada, Vincent Toi, Crystal Chan, Don Ritter, Maxime-Claude L'Ecuyer, Kichae Jung, Peter Xirogiannis, Tyra Maria Trono, Deb Vanslet, Paul Park, Young Kwon Kim, Takumi, Linda Lee, Danny Payne and all directors and artists.

Canadian Heritage, FCCCQ, King Sejong Institute in Montreal, the McGill Internship Office, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Montreal, Cinéma du Musée, Cinéma Moderne, Centre Création Danse Nyata Nyata, Goethe-Institut Montreal, MKFCM, Cinéma sous les étoiles, Korean Film Archive, Korea Academy for Film Arts, Dano Foods, and Ada X and many more!

ALUMNI

Zoe Sarkar, Yerin Lee, Gayeon Song, Mathilde Elie, Ana Lucia Londono Flores, Fanny Lord-Bourcier, Seongwoo Jang, Joon-Sun Lim, Sangmin Lee, John Kim, Charlotte Dion-Dufourd, Christina Lee, Carolyne Van Der Meer, Lucia Londono Flores, Mi-Jeong Lee, Jacques Desbiens, Elyeser R., Beatrice Shilton, Harmonie Macintyre, Peng Ling, Jin Taek Shim, Terry Chiu, Emmanuel Moonchil Park, Jason, Karman, Miya Turnbull, Sebastien Simon, Yiou Wang, Dede Chen, Sojung Bahang, Nikhil Rath, Sang Kwan Heo, Alice Ming Wai Jim, NOH Kwang-woo, KIM Nemo, JEONG Minah, Gabriel Fauveaud, Bina Lee, Jongho Kyun, El, Emily Warwick, Maia Mendilaharzu, Julien Pouliot, Vincent Labrecque, Kim Trudel, Pierre-Luc Thivierge, Nicolas Bélisle, Pascale Coulette, Jung A Kim, Gerliee McBride, Raymond Champagne, Kim Young, Suwon Shin, KIM Hong Joon Kim, KIM Bonyoung, SHIN Jae young, Jiyoung Lee, LEE Joon Dong, Juyoung Kim, Amanda Gavidia, Eojin Park, Amy Dang, Dominique Caouette, Emma-Kate Guimond, Hong Kal, Minsook Lee, JD Kim, Hyunwoong Oh, Minsik Kim, Youngdae Shin, Heejung Yang, Yoon Ha Cho, John Nong, Lehna Dahdou, AnnaClare Sung, Ugyong Choi, Rha Yoon, kimura byol lemoine, Kichae Chung, Sophia Ye, Steffen Cornwell, Annabelle Kang, Brandon Sun, Seokbin Yoon.

If you participated in our organizations and would like to keep your name up send us an e-mail at  coordination@artseastwest.ca